Ever YoungJames Barnor

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Product Code: bk16008

ISBN: 978-2-9542-2664-4

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James
Barnor, who was born in 1929 in Accra, is a pioneer of Ghanaian
photography. This monograph offers a comprehensive survey of a career
spanning a remarkable period in history, bridging continents and
photographic genres to create a transatlantic narrative marked by his
passionate interest in people and cultures.

Barnor
began work as a photographer in Accra in 1947 where he set up the
Ever Young studio, taking photographs of the local community. He also
worked as a photojournalist for the Daily
Graphic
and the South African anti-apartheid black lifestyle magazine Drum,
which led him to London in the 1960s.

Barnor
returned to Ghana at the end of the 1960s where he helped open the
country’s first colour-processing laboratory. In 1993 he returned
to London where he continues to live today. His varied body of
photographic work documents the shift towards modern living as
experienced by black people in both Africa and Britain. This
comprehensive overview of his work was published by Autograph ABP in
association with éditions Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris, in
2015. An exhibition of the same name has toured internationally.

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